The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-03-29
THE DAUNrLEss SAFE.
The Passage Made in Is Days,
Hour, 4s Minutes, i3 Seconds.
Very Rough Weather and an Event
full Passage.
A $4,000 Cup Offered as a Prize for
a Return Race.
The coronst said to be For Sale.

QUEENSTOWN. March 2S.-The Dauntless
crossed the finishing line at GAS o'clock
Her actual time on the passage was 16 days,
hour, 4S minutes and IL seconds. She was
towed into the harbor and is safely at
anchor. All ON board are well and the yacnt
is in as good shape as when she left Owls
Head, nothing having been carried away.
She experienced about the same weather as
the Coronet The comparison of the two
racers indicates that they followed about the
same course Caldwell Colt, owner of the
Dauntless, says he encountered more wind
than he bargained for. FOR 10 hours his
boat was obliged te hay to. Once she scudded
before the gale under bare poles. When
last seen from the deck s0f the Coronet on
the evening lof the start the Dauntless was
steering south, southeast, but during the
night her course was changed to the north
east by east.
On March 16 she ran into heavy cross seas
with strong southeast gale. Oil was used
with good effect to break the waves, and the
yacht weathered her first storm well. The
next day the sea was even more turbulant,
and broke over the deck inIrapid succession,
wrenching the yacht so much tnat she began
to leak slightly. The temperature of both
air and water on the afternoon of the 18th
INDICATED thai Ice was in close proximity, and
u became necessary to use great precaution
In running. AT midnight the thermometer
registered A degrees and the water 80. An
hour later the temperature Of the air was IA
degrees, and the water 28.
AT SIX O'Clock on the night of the 10Th
when heavy gale was blowing from the
southwest smooth stretch of water was
run into Its temperature indicated that
lnere were lcebergs near. There was
Quantity OF field ice to the leeward and very
near. On the 20th. 21st and 22nd there were
Strong gales. 1t was on the last of those
days that the Dauntless hove TO. Since last
thursday the weather was fine. On the 25th
80 miles was made, which is said TO be the
pest ever made by a yacht on the Attain
tlc ocean. Fastnet light was sighted at 13O
O'Clock IN the morning, but the wind had
slow.
During the storm of the 23rd the cockpit
was on several occasions filed with water,
and altogether 1t was perilous time for the
yacht On the oath the sea was terribly rough
and the boat rolled so badly that the water
tank burst, Seamen were consequently. put
on tne smallest possible allowance of water,
but later Oh they were plentifully supplied
with ale and claret and ultimately with
champagne instead Of water. All on board
arrived in the best of health.
Considering the difference in the tonnage
and the length of the two yachts, and the
vailed during the voyage the Dauntiess is
Thought TO have done as well as her compet-
itor. The officers and friends of both Yachts
Will be entertained by the members of the
Royal Cork Yacht Club.
NEW YORK, March 2S.-Richard X. Fox.
proprietor Of the Police Gazette, has notified
Messrs. Bush and Colt, owners of the yachts
Coronet and Dauntless that he will give a
cup of the value of 5000 for the return
ocean race from Fastnet, Ireland to Sandy
Hook, under conditions similar to those
which governed the recent race which was
won by the Coronet If Messrs. Bush and
Colt reply faverably the race will be arranged.
New YORK, March 28.-Considerable
feeling has been reused in the New York
Yacht Club by the news that Bush has Of
Tered the Cor0net for sale, the inference be-
ing that the recent race was an advertising
dodge on his part. He acknowledges he has
cabled Capt. Crosby to take the yacht 10
Cowes, Isles of Wight, and announces that
she is for sale for S150,000. He says he knew
when the vessel was built that she was the
fastest schooner in the world and made the
racaNVith the Dauntless to prove it. He
says he has no time to sail her and hopes
some good yachtsman who has win buy her.
He will no<enter the Coronet in the Queens
Jubilee races, for he does not believe in those
bath tub races for boat of her class. Colts
losses by his defeat are said to be $4,000.